January 1, 2000: One of the original purposes of this site was to promote my word games. Sales weren't great (I liquidated), but I decided to maintain the rest of content. I hope you enjoy it. Dave Friedman

JUMBLE & CROSSWORD SOLVERThe Jumble & Crossword Solver lets you enter scrambled letters and it returns the unscrambled word. It also lets you enter words with letters missing and it tells you all the words that fit the pattern.

ONELOOK DICTIONARIESOneLook Dictionaries offer a quick way to search through more than 185 dictionaries, some quite specialized -- science, sports, business, religion.

ITOOLSResearch-It provides an easy-to-use interface for lots of resources on the web. They include: a rhyming dictionary, language translators, a language identifier, and many other useful tools.

RHYMING DICTIONARYIn addition to finding words that rhyme with whatever you submit, the Rhyming Dictionary has other options including homophones -- words that sound that same, but are spelled differently.

WORDNETTo describe WordNet simply as a thesaurus, isn't entirely accurate. But that's the best I can do. Check it out and you'll see the wealth of information it provides about any word you enter.

ONLINE GAMES

20 QUESTIONSThe classic game of 20 questions, where you think of something and the program behind the website guesses what it is. Uses artifical intelligence to get surprisingly good results.

FUNSTERWhat's in a Name is a great fast-paced game where players compete against others over the internet. The object is to find new words from the letters in the name of a celebrity. New games start every few minutes.

GROKA fun daily puzzle that presents different subjects that relate to each other in some way.

MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORD PUZZLESThere are five types of puzzles to play. With a large archive and a new puzzle each day, you can spend a lot of time here.

PUZZABILITYPuzzability is really a company that creates all types of custom puzzles for web sites, CD-ROMs, ads, and pretty much anything else you can think of. They're listed here because they've included a generous supply of fun sample puzzles to try out. They also have a trivia section (updated daily), which includes a hall of fame! (And it doesn't hurt that their web site is very cool.)

REC.PUZZLES ARCHIVEThe rec.puzzles Archive contains lots of puzzles compiled from the rec.puzzles newsgroup and has them categorized by type. Solutions to all puzzles are included.

STORY FUNStory Fun selects a random story and you fill in some of the nouns, verbs, and adjectives to make it more entertaining -- similar to Mad Libs.

AMANDA'S MNEMONICS PAGEAmanda's Mnemonics Page lists lots of helpful ways to remember lots of different things. For example, the word "homes" might help you remember that the five Great Lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.

ANDY'S ANAGRAM SOLVERAndy's Anagram Solver instantly finds anagrams for words and phrases you enter. You can also tell it how many words to limit its answers to.

COLLECTION OF WORD ODDITIESThis collection includes lots of interesting bits of word trivia, such as a list of words with double Us (like vacuum and continuum).

COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISHA great collection of errors in English, as well as correct usages that many people insist are wrong.

ELEMENTS OF STYLEThis is the 1918 edition version of The Elements of Style, by William Strunk. It covers rules of usage and composition most commonly violated in the English language.

THE GAME REPORTThe Game Report is a quarterly publication dedicated to board games, party games, dice games, card games, family games, and strategy games. Many past articles and reviews are included on their web site.

THE HETERONYM PAGEThe Heteronym Page lists words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations, such as "close" and "produce."

INVERSIONSAn inversion is a word written so it reads in more than one way. Some inversions read upside down, some flip in a mirror. Scott Kim, creator of the Silicon Graphics logo (among many other things), has an impressive gallery of inversions.

LANGUAGE MUSEUMWord lists and other interesting uses of the English language.

MAG'S WORD FINDERMag's Word Finder lists all the possible words that can be formed from the letters in a word or phrase you enter.

NATIONAL PUZZLERS' LEAGUEThe National Puzzlers' League was established in 1883, and has been active ever since. They have a monthly newsletter with lots of puzzles (various types and degrees of difficulty). They also have a convention each summer, with lots of games, puzzles, and comradeship. Information about the group, and sample puzzles are available on their site.

PHONESPELLPhoneSpell searches a dictionary to translate phone numbers into words and phrases.

SCRABBLE FAQThe Scrabble FAQ includes information about the game and tournaments held around the world.

SPELLING TESTQuiz yourself with this list of 50 commonly misspelled words. Afterwards, check out the tips to help improve your spelling.